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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Brest

Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
October 3, 2023, 3:32 am
A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Haredi r Jewish leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, seen in his home, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Bnei Brak. January 22, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
December 12, 2017, 8:11 am
Rabbi Steinman, venerated leader of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Jewry, dies at 104
Fondly known as the ‘rosh yeshiva,’ the religious authority toed line between political pragmatism and fierce opposition to IDF service
By Marissa Newman
The tombstone of Rabbi Haim Leib Barit atop a pile of gravestones at the Brest Fortress in Belarus. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)
January 15, 2015, 2:41 pm
In a town built on Jewish headstones, still no fixing what the Nazis destroyed
Ariel Sharon’s parents were born here. Menachem Begin grew up here. And then the Nazis came. More than 70 years later, even efforts for a monument to the annihilated Jewish community of Brest are frozen, with just one charity group pressing ahead
By Ilan Ben Zion
Prime Minister Menachem Begin arriving in the United States (Photo credit: USAF/ Wikimedia Commons)
June 6, 2013, 10:54 am
Begin remembered in Belarus hometown
Brest kicks off first of many events in honor of late Israeli PM’s100th
September 10, 2012, 12:53 pm
French court convicts soccer fan for Hitler salute
32-year-old fined $910 and banned from the arena for two years for illegal gesture
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